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diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/preloader.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/preloader.rb
index 83637a0409..4358f3b581 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/preloader.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/preloader.rb
@@ -2,33 +2,42 @@ module ActiveRecord
module Associations
# Implements the details of eager loading of Active Record associations.
#
- # Note that 'eager loading' and 'preloading' are actually the same thing.
- # However, there are two different eager loading strategies.
+ # Suppose that you have the following two Active Record models:
#
- # The first one is by using table joins. This was only strategy available
- # prior to Rails 2.1. Suppose that you have an Author model with columns
- # 'name' and 'age', and a Book model with columns 'name' and 'sales'. Using
- # this strategy, Active Record would try to retrieve all data for an author
- # and all of its books via a single query:
+ # class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
+ # # columns: name, age
+ # has_many :books
+ # end
#
- # SELECT * FROM authors
- # LEFT OUTER JOIN books ON authors.id = books.author_id
- # WHERE authors.name = 'Ken Akamatsu'
+ # class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
+ # # columns: title, sales
+ # end
#
- # However, this could result in many rows that contain redundant data. After
- # having received the first row, we already have enough data to instantiate
- # the Author object. In all subsequent rows, only the data for the joined
- # 'books' table is useful; the joined 'authors' data is just redundant, and
- # processing this redundant data takes memory and CPU time. The problem
- # quickly becomes worse and worse as the level of eager loading increases
- # (i.e. if Active Record is to eager load the associations' associations as
- # well).
+ # When you load an author with all associated books Active Record will make
+ # multiple queries like this:
+ #
+ # Author.includes(:books).where(:name => ['bell hooks', 'Homer').to_a
+ #
+ # => SELECT `authors`.* FROM `authors` WHERE `name` IN ('bell hooks', 'Homer')
+ # => SELECT `books`.* FROM `books` WHERE `author_id` IN (2, 5)
+ #
+ # Active Record saves the ids of the records from the first query to use in
+ # the second. Depending on the number of associations involved there can be
+ # arbitrarily many SQL queries made.
+ #
+ # However, if there is a WHERE clause that spans across tables Active
+ # Record will fall back to a slightly more resource-intensive single query:
+ #
+ # Author.includes(:books).where(books: {title: 'Illiad'}).to_a
+ # => SELECT `authors`.`id` AS t0_r0, `authors`.`name` AS t0_r1, `authors`.`age` AS t0_r2,
+ # `books`.`id` AS t1_r0, `books`.`title` AS t1_r1, `books`.`sales` AS t1_r2
+ # FROM `authors`
+ # LEFT OUTER JOIN `books` ON `authors`.`id` = `books`.`author_id`
+ # WHERE `books`.`title` = 'Illiad'
+ #
+ # This could result in many rows that contain redundant data and it performs poorly at scale
+ # and is therefore only used when necessary.
#
- # The second strategy is to use multiple database queries, one for each
- # level of association. Since Rails 2.1, this is the default strategy. In
- # situations where a table join is necessary (e.g. when the +:conditions+
- # option references an association's column), it will fallback to the table
- # join strategy.
class Preloader #:nodoc:
extend ActiveSupport::Autoload
@@ -80,7 +89,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
# { author: :avatar }
# [ :books, { author: :avatar } ]
- NULL_RELATION = Struct.new(:values).new({})
+ NULL_RELATION = Struct.new(:values, :bind_values).new({}, [])
def preload(records, associations, preload_scope = nil)
records = Array.wrap(records).compact.uniq
@@ -112,13 +121,14 @@ module ActiveRecord
end
def preloaders_for_hash(association, records, scope)
- parent, child = association.to_a.first # hash should only be of length 1
-
- loaders = preloaders_for_one parent, records, scope
+ association.flat_map { |parent, child|
+ loaders = preloaders_for_one parent, records, scope
- recs = loaders.flat_map(&:preloaded_records).uniq
- loaders.concat Array.wrap(child).flat_map { |assoc|
- preloaders_on assoc, recs, scope
+ recs = loaders.flat_map(&:preloaded_records).uniq
+ loaders.concat Array.wrap(child).flat_map { |assoc|
+ preloaders_on assoc, recs, scope
+ }
+ loaders
}
end
@@ -140,36 +150,14 @@ module ActiveRecord
end
def grouped_records(association, records)
- reflection_records = records_by_reflection(association, records)
-
- reflection_records.each_with_object({}) do |(reflection, r_records),h|
- h[reflection] = r_records.group_by { |record|
- association_klass(reflection, record)
- }
- end
- end
-
- def records_by_reflection(association, records)
- records.group_by do |record|
- reflection = record.class.reflect_on_association(association)
-
- reflection || raise_config_error(record, association)
- end
- end
-
- def raise_config_error(record, association)
- raise ActiveRecord::ConfigurationError,
- "Association named '#{association}' was not found on #{record.class.name}; " \
- "perhaps you misspelled it?"
- end
-
- def association_klass(reflection, record)
- if reflection.macro == :belongs_to && reflection.options[:polymorphic]
- klass = record.read_attribute(reflection.foreign_type.to_s)
- klass && klass.constantize
- else
- reflection.klass
+ h = {}
+ records.each do |record|
+ next unless record
+ assoc = record.association(association)
+ klasses = h[assoc.reflection] ||= {}
+ (klasses[assoc.klass] ||= []) << record
end
+ h
end
class AlreadyLoaded
@@ -190,6 +178,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
class NullPreloader
def self.new(klass, owners, reflection, preload_scope); self; end
def self.run(preloader); end
+ def self.preloaded_records; []; end
end
def preloader_for(reflection, owners, rhs_klass)
@@ -198,6 +187,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
if owners.first.association(reflection.name).loaded?
return AlreadyLoaded
end
+ reflection.check_preloadable!
case reflection.macro
when :has_many